On Thu, Feb 27, 2014, Raghav Varadan wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to build an application that used fips capable openssl which I
> built for Mac osx 32 bit. Now I would like to embed the checksum into the
> application binary. I checked the fips user guide and I don't see any
> specific for OSX. I know for windows there are two ways to embed the
> checksum 1) using fipslink.pl 2) msincore and again for linux we have 1)
> fipsld 2) incore utilites. Similarly what should I be using for MacOSX?
> 
> Questions:
> 1) Does fipsld also work for OSX?
> 2) For ios the document mentions about incore_macho utility, can this be
> used for osx 32 applications to embed checksum?
> 

If you're using shared libraries then the checksum is in those and you don't
insert one in the application binary. If you use static libraries you use
fipsld, it's not just Linux it works with it should be OK on any U*ix like
natively compiled platform.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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